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80+ hours a week of probably unpaid overtime - that's not only mismanagement, that's exploitation.
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When will people realise that working long hours does not equal increased productivity? Tired developers make mistakes that eat yet more time to fix.
80+ hours is insane - you're much better out of there dude. -
Been in a similar, but not so terrible situation before. Long work hours were the norm (50+ hours per week), pressure from management to work on weekends was not uncommon, etc. Other co-workorder sometimes tried to pressure or guilt me into staying late, but fuck em. I held my ground and worked a normal 40ish hour week. Maybe a couple times I worked a 45+ hours week, but that was it. I worked there for 2 years and nobody made any offical complaints. Had management said anything I would have just left anyway, and I assume they knew that.
Some people can kill themselves working, I cannot. -
Unpaid overtime is wage theft and a crime. If you have a Dept of Labor or similar they can take your records of time worked vs time paid and fine the business.
I realize now I probably shouldn't have called out my manger's bullshit if I wanted to keep my job. We were told to work a Sunday and our PO called it a "Smack-a-thon."
I said, "No let's not use stupid names. Let's call things what they are. This is a management failure Sunday."
That was during new hire lunch, in front of my manager.
I worked the first Sunday. I refused to work the second one. I've also been refusing to work over 45 hours a week.
So I guess I could have seen it coming. My manager didn't even have the gums to do it himself. He had the HR lady do it, while I was working remote from home. She told me it wasn't a 9 to 5 shop and that people there are expected to work long hours (People on my team are working 80+ a week for several months).
I took the train in to get my stuff. No one was there. My computer already gone. Couldn't even say "Go fuck yourself to anybody."
So I feel better now. I haven't taken a day of since I started in February, so it's time for some vacation and an unemployment check.
It was a really terrible job, and terribly mismanaged. I'm glad I stood my ground and knew what I was worth. I wish my co-workers had done the same.
I should have tried to start a union.
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